Unlike Haaretz‘s English edition, wire services which also covered the story yesterday included the critical information from Israel’s Shin Bet that al-Qiq was recently involved in Hamas terror activity.

Likewise, AFP reported: “Shin Bet, the Israeli domestic security service, said Qiq was arrested for ‘terror activity’ as part of the Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip.”

Even Gulf Today mentions the Shin Bet’s allegation that al-Qeq is involved with current terror activity: “Shin Bet, the Israeli domestic security service, alleges Qiq is an active member of Hamas group which controls the Gaza Strip.”

CAMERA yesterday informed editors of the substantive omission from the English edition article, which ran yesterday on page 2 of the print edition as well as online. Information about al-Qeq’s alleged Hamas activity does not yet appear in the online article.

This is not the first time that Haaretz has whitewashed the reported terror activity of Palestinian prisoners. In February 2013, the paper ran a huge, five-column, page-two photograph of Palestinian hunger striker Samer Issawi. The caption noted that Issawi “was jailed in an Israeli prison and has been on hunger strike for 209 days,” but ignored the fact that Issawi had been convicted of firing at a civilian vehicle and civilian buses and manufacturing and distributing explosives used against Israeli civilians.

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Tamar SternthalTamar Sternthal is director of CAMERA’s Israel Office. She monitors both U.S. publications and the English-language Israeli daily Ha’aretz, and heads up CAMERA’s “Ha’aretz, Lost in Translation” project. Her columns have appeared in numerous American and Israeli publications, including the Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, Ynet, Algemeiner, Philadelphia Daily News, St. Petersburg Times, and the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Sternthal is interviewed on radio about the media's coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict and regularly participates in panels about the media, hosted by universities and think tanks in Israel.Twitter handle: http://twitter.com/TamarSternthal